Name: The Oxford History of English By Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)
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The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its varied progress nationally, regionally, and throughout the world. With scholarship at once impeccable and approachable, the authors describe and explain the constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar of English. This is a book for everyone interested in the language, present and past.

The Oxford History of English Reviews

For a scholarly book pursuing English from its hazy origins to the internet, this book provides much pleasure. * The Independent *
The Oxford History of English, in sum, is an important and exhilarating new resource, not only for scholars and graduate students of literature and language, but also for the interested lay reader. * Heather C. Easterling, Modern Language Review *

About Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.

Introduction: A History of the English Language ; 1. Preliminaries: before English ; 2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English ; 3. Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French ; 4. Middle English - dialects and diversity ; 5. From Middle to Early Modern English ; 6. Restructuring Renaissance English ; 7. Mapping Change in Tudor English ; 8. The Babel of Renaissance English ; 9. Speakers and Writers of Eighteenth-century English ; 10. English in the Nineteenth Century ; 11. Modern Regional English in the British Isles ; 12. English Among the Languages ; 13. English World-wide in the Twentieth Century ; 14. Into the Twenty-first Century ; TImeline ; Table of Phonetic Equivalents ; Glossary ; References ; Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Index

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Title

The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

Author

Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

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Oxford University Press

Year published

2012-11-29

Number of pages

624

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The Oxford History of English Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

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The Oxford History of English Summary

The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

The Oxford History of English Reviews

About Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College)

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